With the release of Qt 3.3 some days ago, IT Manager's Journal recently featured an interesting article on Trolltech. "How's this for a backhanded yet powerful endorsement of a company's products? Pixar Animation Studios, creator of such movie hits as "Finding Nemo," "Toy Story," and "Monsters Inc.", uses Trolltech's software throughout its operation but won't talk about it publicly because it thinks it would be giving away a competitive advantage." Commemorating the same occasion, OfB.biz also featured an interview with Trolltech CEO Haavard Nord. "With the potential for a substantial performance improvement, Qt 4 could be coming out about the time Nord estimates that GNU/Linux desktop adoption will start to become more mainstream. He remarked that there has been a shift in Qt purchasing [to Linux] over the past few years." Just a couple of articles you might find interesting.

The language I prefer to use when developing apps with QT3 is Python, using the PyQt bindings. :)

I used to be a Borland Delphi fan back in my younger Windows days, and I really missed having a nice, easy-to-use language alongside a nice, easy-to-use GUI designer when I started using Linux full time.

Then I discovered QT, which I began using to develop C++ applications.

Then I discovered Python, and I've never touched C++ again, since the types of applications I write do not necessitate using it.

yes! python absolutely rules for anything that does not need to be as fast as possible. the python/Qt combination is especially good. Qt does all the cpu-intensive stuff for you. I've programmed in almost any language, and as Eric Raymond puts it: 'python is the best programming language for transforming pure thought into action.' I cannot recommend it enough to anyone, from beginners to expert programmers.

I know what you mean, I still have hope someone will develop PHP bindings for QT as there is a gtk one (gtk.php.net). :)
But I'm really starting to like C (didn't managed to program with C++ yet) while doing some small SDL games, so maybe when I learn C++ I won't want this anymore.

yeah, QT is great. i love it. its the only thing i'll use (if i gotta choice) to write gui apps. i've tried and hated MCF and Swing. i heard cocoa for mac is good, but screw it, i'm a die hard QT fan now...(plus its not cross platform).

I'm a PhD student. I use C++ and QT on a regular basis. A few weeks after telling my supervisor this, he writes an image processing toolkit and helpfully names it QT, short for CUTIE (I'll only say that the acronym involves the initials of the university). Absent minded :)

And he refuses to change it. The students are already very confused, and my thesis is going to be really, really amusing to write.

Its out-dated. Its old-fashioned. Even apple is turning to Qt these days. Ok, maybe you have interests of historical nature (some programmers still play with GEM - why not?) but KDE was always a future-oriented game. :-)

I think KDE, in all respect, is a very good desktop environment, but GNUstep feels much more than just a desktop environment.

Sometimes I feel the best thing to do would be to create a complete free software based operating system instead of free separatable modules (like the Linux kernel, the X Window system, KDE, Debian package management system and more). They are great individual projects/modules, but I feel they don't interact too well.

Maybe the best solution would be to implement some way of a free clone of Mac OS X, but maybe make it even better.
Maybe it's possible to port all the KDE software to the GNUstep architecture; Qt/Mac exists, or maybe port Qt/X11 to use the GNUstep libraries.